Diffusing apparatus.



(I. F. BLAKE.

DIFFUSING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED 020.9. 1913.

Patented June 29, 1915.

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DIFFUSING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED mac. 9, 1913.

Patented June 29, 1915.

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CLINTON F. BLAKE, OF PORTLAND, OREGON, ASSIGNOB 'IO WILLIAM F. ROGERS,OF

PORTLAND, OREGON.

DIFFUSING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 29, 1915.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLINTON F. BLAKE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in DiffusingApparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an apparatus for diffusing a measured amount ofany liquid from one vessel into any liquid contained in another vessel,or more particularly to disinfectant apparatus for toilets and the likewherein a measured amount of the liquid disinfectant is to be dischargedinto the flush water upon each operation of the toilet for purposes tobe hereinafter fully explained.

The object of my invention is to provide a device of this kind that issimple in construction, durable, efiicient in operation, and inexpensivein manufacture.

With these and other useful objects in view, the invention consists ofcertain novel features of construction, combinations of elements, andarrangement of parts to be fully set forth and specifically claimedhereinafter.

In order to clearly comprehend my invention and the art to which itrelates, reference is made to the accompanying drawings which form partof this application, of which Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of myinvention taken on line A A, Fig. 2, and of a tank to which it isattached; Fig. 2 is a plan view of same with said tank removed; Figs. 3and 4 are similar views to Fig. 1, showing different positions of theliquids, and Fig. 5 is a modification of my invention, showing how itmay be connected to a plurality of tanks.

In the several figures of the drawings in which like characters ofreference indicate like parts, the numeral 2 indicates a container whichis integral with chamber 3, siphon-pipe 4c, and air-pipe 5; a smallaperture 6 passes through bottom 7 of container 2, and opens intochamber 3, for purposes to be hereinafter fully explained.

Container 2 has also attached therein a tube 8 that passes through thebottom 7, of said container to which said tube is fixed, to a planelevel with end 9 of siphon-pipe 4.

When said container 2 is filled through opening 10, screw-cap 11 isplaced therein and the container rendered air-tight. After said cap isscrewed into said opening, the container is inverted as shown in thedrawings, placed into tank 12 as illustrated which may be the Hush tankof the toilet, and fixed thereto by any practical or convenient means.

After said container is filled and attached to the tank as aforesaid,the liquid in said container drops downwardly through'aperture 6 intochamber 3 until it reaches the level of end 9 of pipe 8, which it thenseals and thus prevents the flow of air from aperture 5 into pipe 8.

As pipe 8 provides the only communication of container 2 with theatmosphere (through chamber 3 and pipe 5) when said pipe 8 is thussealed at its lower end no air can find admittance into container 2 andthus no further liquid will be discharged through aperture 6.

In order to operate the invention, the level of the water in tank 12 israised to a line indicated by arbitrary line 12 to height above top 4*of siphon-pipe 4.

The liquid contained in tank 12, enters chamber 3 through aperture 4: ofsiphonpipe 4, mixing with the liquid formerly contained in said chamber3, and thereby diffuses said liquid throughout the chamber, from whichit passes by reason of the lowering of the level of the liquid in tank12, to arbitrary line 12 as shown in Fig. 4, to a level below point 4 ofsiphon-pipe 4:, thereby causing a siphon action in aperture 4, whichaction continues until the liquid in chamber 3 is emptied into tank 12and the two liquids are completely mixed. The foregoing operations maybe repeated an indefinite number of times for the purposes aforesaid.

My invention may be constructed of any material and made any size deemedsuitable for all the requirements of such an apparatus, and while I haveillustrated and described a preferred form of mechanism and combinationsof elements considered essential in materializing the same, I wish toinclude in this application all mechanical equivalents and substitutesthat may be fairly considered to lie within the scope and purview of myinvention as defined in the appended claim.

Having thus fully described my invention so that others skilled in theart to which it appertains may be enabled to construct and use thesame,what 'Iclaim anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In a diffusing device for handling liquid disinfectant, a containeradapted to contain liquid disinfectant and having a discharge orifice inthe bottom thereof, a receiving chamber below said container adapted toreceive the liquid disinfectant as same is discharged from the containerthrough said orifice, an air tube connecting said container and saidreceiving chamber, said air tube terminating adjacent to the top of saidcontainer and adjacent to the bottom of said receiving chamber, saidcontainer being tightly closed except for said air tube and saiddischarge orifice, and said discharge orifice belng of such size thatliquid will pass therethrough when air is admitted to said containerthrough said air tube, but that the liquid will not run out of saiddischarge orifice when said air tube is closed, an air tube connectingsaid receiving chamber with the atmosphere, and a siphon OLIN TON F.BLAKE.

Witnesses PETER IHABERLIN, W PIGKERING.

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